Patriots' Spygate: the "Who Cares?" Story of the NFL

    If you're a Rams fan, Panthers fan, or Eagles fan, you probably want to see the Lombardi torn out of Foxboro and placed in your respective trophy cases.

    Sorry, that's just not going to happen.

    I understand everyone is unhappy about this whole ordeal that includes Roger Goodell. How would you feel with Arlen Specter breathing down your neck? The sheer creepiness of the literal aspect of that statement is mind-boggling. 

    The fact of the matter is that "Spygate" really is not all that interesting. This happens every single week in the NFL. And not only the NFL, but most any sport. Everyone is trying to get the upper hand on their opponent no matter what the situation or arena.

    The most obvious is baseball. You cannot tell me that every manager in the MLB isn't sitting in their dugout eye-balling that guy on 3rd trying to figure out what those signals mean, all just to get the upper hand. Every basketball player is trying to figure out what those numbers mean that the point guard is screaming about and it goes on and on and on and on and on.

    No doubt, this is bad for the NFL. But it wouldn't be so bad if more people realized how incredibly meaningless this all is. The only reason this has gotten the publicity it has is because they are the Patriots. If the Raiders or Dolphins had been cheating, everyone would have laughed... And laughed... And laughed, and then moved on. But because this is the Patriots everyone thinks that they only became what they are because of these tapes. That's just not the case. The Patriots pieced together one of the best teams I, or anyone else, have ever seen.

    All of those good players to go along with one of the best coaches to ever put on a headset, that's where all the winning came from. I do not believe that any of these tapes gave them just enough of an advantage to pull one out. They won because they were the better team. And for those of you screaming about beating the Rams in 2001, there was no walk-thru tape, let it go. You robbed the Titans in '99, isn't that enough?

    On to Matt Walsh, he was a meaningless film assistant. He had nothing the NFL didn't already know about. Way to go, Specter. I had to laugh when I saw this story first talked about on NFL Live and they didn't even have a picture of him. That should show just how meaningless the man was in all of this.

    The Patriots have been reprimanded, and pretty severely as is the forte of Goodell Khan. The '72 Dolphins still can claim to be the only undefeated team in the modern era (so Don Shula, shut up), and best of all, the team we all love to hate was picked apart in free agency. It's a win for everyone. Don't even try complaining Patriots fans, you still have your 3 rings. So yeah, you win too.

    The bottom line is this, it's over. This whole thing is over and congress needs to start focusing on oil prices and the war rather than what is going on in professional sports. In the big picture, in the grand scheme of things, (insert other generic prepositional phrase to say "look at the whole situation") professional sports are irrelevant to how a country is run. Keep that in mind Mr. Specter when the people of Pennsylvania hopefully finally toss you out. Sorry to get political.

    Bill Belichick is not Richard Nixon. Let it alone, people.